BALTIC SMALL | „LAISVĖ“ Lietuvos nacionalinis dramos teatras

On October 5-15, the Panevezys Cultural Heaven will be illuminated by the International Small Stage Festival Baltic Small - this year's theme: Light. The festival, which has long traditions, is organized by Panevezys Theater "Art". The festival invites you to experience theater as an inner enlightenment that grows, brings together and inspires. This year, the program is distinguished by a variety of content and shapes, from traditional performances to play readings and experienced performances. Much attention is paid to the creators of the Baltic States, the international dialogue and the trends of contemporary stage art.

The performance of the performance takes place in a family where family members are tolerant of one another, respecting each other's choices, and not restricting each other's freedom. The family cell in this case is a reflection of society.

For the mayor and the pole, over forty. The mayor wants Paul to change his job, but he does not want it. He is an exemplary bureaucrat who has been working for a new state institution for several years and has a social significance and responsibility of his activities. And now Max, their 18-year-old son, has just been employed in the same institution as his father.
The contemporary play of Canadian Martin Bellemare tells the story of a neat, rational, structured society that gives and legalizes the right of citizens to decide when, how they want to end their lives.
Freedom and death are the two main topics that actor and director Dainius Gavenonis, together with his creative team, speaks in the performance "Freedom".
The topic of freedom in modern discourse is a frequent recurrent narrative. A free person with the opportunity to choose from to tolerates the free choices of another is like a modern benchmark. Even if the choice is death when a person deliberately decides to end life. We often face the attitude that we are the blacksmiths of our destiny. As the principles of religion and faith disappear, there was no higher force than man. He controls the circumstances, creates himself, so he can choose death. It is not surprising that a person who has raised himself to such a responsible position remains lonely with his power to choose. The creators of the performance are determined to talk about the boundaries of freedom and what responsibility we have against ourselves and others in the concept of freedom.
The play reviews universal tensions between the individual and society, alienation, abstract principles and specific circumstances. Here we can recognize Kamiu's existentialism, the criticism of Kafka bureaucracy, and the orvelic dystopias of the near future. The questions raised in the performance do not give easy answers. Can death be humanized and optimized? Is it a monopoly of coercion of public authorities wrapped in humanism, finally solving social consequences, but not the cause? Freedom as an idea is one of the driving forces of liberal society, while both obvious and difficult to explain. It is said that there is nothing more real than death, but we cannot say the same about freedom. The theme of freedom and responsibility in the play is embodied through the character of a responsible citizen and employee, for whom abstract institutional goals are more important than the individual's drama until it is personal. It seems that from the free individual loving family man to the hangman only one step. To seek freedom means to be able to recognize differences and take responsibility for one's actions. But it is probably more important to realize that living in society is not just the sum of individual choices, and our concepts of freedom are changing and are constantly tested in practice.
Bellemar's plays are publicly erected in France, Canada, Italy and Germany. The playwright's creative biography - about ten plays, "Freedom" - the most famous, was first presented to Lithuanian theater viewers and foreign experts in 2021. During the Siren of the International Theater Festival.
Festival main sponsor: Lithuanian Cultural Council
Festival Sponsor: Panevezys City Municipality

Duration 1.30 hours.

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